Feel Good Vid

Can’t be stopped: [via Urlesque] The peeps at Urlesque found this super cute video of a 91-year-old lady with an oxygen tank in Los Angeles, named Jerry Thill, who still rocks it on the drums.

The video was made by Allee Willis, a songwriter (she wrote some hits), artist and multimedia pioneer, as a tribute to Thill, who has been playing the drums (in high-heels) for female bands for over 60 years. She was also in the “Dixie Belles” band, which played on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” in the late ’80s.

At one point in the song, called “Hey Jerrie,” Thill says that she chose the drums over a wedding ring and beating the skins makes her happy.

I especially like the part when Thill sings, “Oh yeah, oh yeah.”

In Sports

Lightning strikes twice: Jamaica’s Usain Bolt set another world record today in the men’s 200-meter race at the IAAF World Championships, clocking in at 19.19 seconds.

The previous record was 19.30, also set by Bolt in Beijing last year.

No one else was even close:

In Ads

Harry Potter status: [via AdFreak] CBS is rolling out an embedded video ad in the fall-TV-preview issues of Entertainment Weekly set to come out next month. AdFreak says it’s a 40-minute commercial (wow) that has a bunch of clips from shows in its fall line-up.

According to the Financial Times, it would cost several dollars per issue to do this video ad, while a regular print ad only costs nine cents a page per copy.

Because it’s so pricey, only a small number of these issues will be sold in issues in New York and Los Angeles.

Marketing idears

Seriously, you don’t feel that?: [via BuzzFeed] A British phone and broadband provider called TalkTalk has launched an interesting marketing campaign — They assembled a team of 20 ex-pickpockets and hired them to be put-pockets, which means they secretly give money instead of taking it.

With the money, which ranges from 5-20 quid (pounds), people who have been put-pocketed will get a small promotional message from TalkTalk. The put-pocketers will be operating around London to the end of August and then will be traveling to other parts of the U.K.

According to Walletpop UK, the police were briefed so that the put-pockets wouldn’t get arrested.

Interesting and much less creepy than that life-sized Burger King puppet that does it. Burger King calls it “reverse pickpocketing.”

Burger King’s version:

In History

Awesome women: [via Coilhouse] This is an amazing video of Helen Keller, the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree, and her teacher Anne Sullivan in a clip from 1930, where Sullivan describes how Helen learned to speak by putting her hand on Sullivan’s face.

Keller’s hand placement allowed her to feel the vocal and nasal vibrations and the shape of the lips, which helped her learn to speak.

Amazing:

On TV

Sensational news: Last night, Fox aired a documentary on Nadya Suleman, also known as the “Octomom,” who made news in January when she gave birth to octuplets and already had six other children at home. The special, called “Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage,” ran two hours long and was described as giving an “intimate look” into Suleman’s private life and how she deals with being a single mother with 14 kids. The footage was shot by Radar Online.

It was supposed to be a big deal, but the L.A. Times reported that it only attracted 4.8 million viewers. By comparison, the most-watched program last night, “America’s Got Talent,” had about 10.3 million viewers.

The whole thing is kind of grim. It starts with sinister music in one part as she says, “I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids’ lives. … What was I thinking?” It also shows her strained relationship with her mother and the difficulties she has raising the 14 kids by herself. Her 2-year-old son also displays some aggression when he curses at Suleman.

Suleman also badmouths Kate Gosselin in one segment, saying that she is seeking too much attention.